organic ornament

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types of architectural ornament

  • Foster and Partners: the Great Court
    In architecture: Organic ornament

    By the early 20th century a preoccupation with the proper function of architectural ornament was characteristic of many architectural thinkers, and by the mid-20th century a concept of architectural ornament had been formulated that has been called organic ornament. This concept, however, is…

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